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Are you being pestered to upgrade to High Sierra?

Some Mac users are being pestered by notifications to upgrade to High Sierra.

As I reported here just over a week ago, Apple installed this nudge using its pushed security and macOS patch service, on Macs which had not yet been upgraded to High Sierra. If you see this notification, it will reappear each week until you finally do upgrade, or it gets fed up some time in the New Year.

If you’d rather remove it, all you have to do is open the folder at /Library/Bundles, and trash the single bundle there named OSXNotification.bundle. As Apple created this folder specially for this bundle, there seems no harm in removing the entire Bundles folder.

(Thanks to Craig Grannell for alerting me to the fact that this notification has now activated itself.)

Thank you so much. I am running El Capitain, and thought upgrading to High Sierra would be a good idea 24 hours ago. But it was a disaster on my iMac 2011 1 TB 16GB ram. Everything crashed, it wouldn shut down etc. Fortunately I could go back to my latest time machine version and boot from there. I really thing Apple should be more careful when suggesting these upgrades, as they risk destroying folks computers.

In the Finder, under Devices, you will see your Mac at the top. Select that, and at the top of the listing will be your startup volume, such as Macintosh HD. Select that. You will then see a number of folders, including one called Library – that is /Library.
Select that, and within it you will see a folder called Bundles. Within that is OSXNotification.bundle.
Howard.

As your Mac already has High Sierra installed, you should not get any such reminders. If you do, complain bitterly to Apple support.
The Bundles folder was created by this ‘update’ for this purpose, although it has also been used in the more distant past. You shouldn’t expect to see it in High Sierra.
Howard.

I have 10.3.1 currently on my mac, but it’s asking me to update to 10.3.3, so I guess that’s kind of different? Either way, still would like to find a way to get around the update until I choose to update myself.

Also, any idea how to disable the App Store update that won’t budge (unless I Restart or update at some later point in time) from the right, top-hand corner of the screen?

Yes, that’s different.
And you really do want to update to 10.13.3 as soon as you possibly can.
You can edit these notifications in the Notifications pane, and alter update behaviour in the App Store pane.
Howard.